‖gek, adjective

/xek//xɛk/
Forms:
Also (attributive) gekke /ˈxɛkə/.
Origin:
Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch gek crazy; a fool.
Stupid; crazy; insane.
c1838 A.G. Bain Jrnls (1949) 196I learned een kleine beetjie But left, with wisdom just as full As gekke tanta Mietjie.
1868 W.R. Thomson Poems, Essays & Sketches 152Booy gradually dropped to the rear, and voting his master ‘gek,’ he kept up a running conversation in broken English and Dutch.
1913 D. Fairbridge Piet of Italy 116The master he baing gek. He say, ‘What for I not go the Club?’
1943 Weekend News & Sunday Mag. 20 Mar. 4‘Dorn’t be blerry gek!’ ses Sofie.
1970 S. Moore Informant, Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern CapeGladys really is gek, she acts so foolishly.
1987 G. Viney Col. Houses 131Dickie was deformed and Martha cheerfully acknowledged to be a ‘bietjie gek’. [Source Note: Kitchen-Dutch for not quite like other people, ‘dotty’.]
Stupid; crazy; insane.
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18381987
geitjie, nounn.geld, nounn.
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